My favorite St. Patrick’s Day memory was in 2nd grade. The day before, my teacher had us set up “leprechaun traps” of our own devising, made of elementary school staples like straws, glue, and construction paper. When we came in the next morning, we found the traps destroyed and bits of green felt and gold glitter…

I have a movie recommendation for you guys. A few days ago, Drew and I were very bored so he suggested we watch the movie Oscar. I had never heard of it before; he said it was a older family comedy starring Sylvester Stallone. I was a little surprised by this suggestion – Drew is a bit…

I would love to visit the lavender fields of Provence in the summer. My perfect day would be taking a slow drive along the lavender route, watching the hazy purple rows. I’d stop at an interesting village and get a little snack from a café with une limonade, s’il vous plaît. Since it is not summer, and I…

When I was grocery shopping for the ingredients for this casserole, I was pretty hungry. Sometimes hunger will make you do weird things. I noticed some vegetarian bacon on sale and thought it seemed like a great side to have with my french toast casserole. I mean, I love turkey bacon, I’d probably like vegetarian…

This Spicy Black Bean Lentil Chili is a filling, economical, and tasty vegan meal. It makes a giant (like, really giant) pot of chili, but you can easily scale down the recipe if you don’t want chili lunches for days. But seriously, this is healthy comfort food at its finest, so I’d recommend making the…

I decided to stay at my parent’s house this weekend while Drew was away on a friend’s bachelor party camping trip. I brought my camera with me, excited for the chance to shoot a recipe on my parent’s nice countertops in some of their Le Creuset cookware. I ended up just enjoying myself, reading the…

With all the fanfare regarding child sex trafficking surrounding the recent Super Bowl, I thought it would be appropriate to share a little about where I’m working right now. For the past several months, I’ve been working as a research intern with Georgia Cares, an organization that works with victims of domestic minor sex trafficking…

Yesterday I went with the folks from my internship to a staff training session at the coolest house I have ever seen. My favorite room was a library/sitting room with books arranged by color on several beautifully curated shelves. There was also a wall of colorful felted wool dryer balls that looked like something out of a modern…

Yesterday Drew and I discussed our eating goals. We decided that we want to continue trying to eat lots of whole food vegetarian and vegan meals. Currently, our dinners consist of about 60% vegetarian/vegan meals, 30% poultry meals, and 10% fish meals. We eat red meat or pork only on very rare occasions – like if…

This dish vaguely reminds me of pad thai. I think it’s the lime and the nuttiness from the walnuts? And this is a pretty easy and quick meal. The first time I made it, I thought it would take quite a while to prep and cook so I almost didn’t make it because Drew and…